Ke Shunzhe didn't intend to say more, nor did he intend to explain to Fu Nanyin. Although the two of them had such a cooperative relationship, the atmosphere was like an enemy they hadn't seen for many years.

And it does.

Funanyin slightly turned her shoulder to avoid Ke Shunzhe's hand.

"Thank you Ke Shilang for your compliment. If that's the case, then I'll wait for your good news."

Ke Shunzhe looked at Fu Nanyin for a while, thinking that the latter would ask, but he didn't, and there was even an ambiguous polite sentence, as if everything was really in his expectation.

"National Teacher, don't worry." He finally said expressionlessly, "There will be good news soon."

Although the Xuanzhi officer is a courtier of the Ministry of Rites, behind him is the guard of honor of the Daming Palace.A few servants rushed back to the palace with Ke Shunzhe to return to their orders, but no one came out for a long time, so they couldn't help but want to poke their heads at the door to have a look.But he was stopped by the Jinwu guards guarding the gate, and there was a lot of commotion.

Ke Shunzhe glanced out from the corner of his eye, then rolled up his sleeves and bowed to Fu Nanyin, without saying anything else, he strode towards the outside of the mansion.

At that time, Funanyin clenched her fists tightly, and for some reason, she remembered the cold machete on her neck that day at the Baihu Festival Hall.

Back then, Ke Shunzhe's hostility was heavier, and he was not as reticent as he is now; but at this moment, he was even more menacing, like a poisonous snake spit out a letter.

Fu Nanyin took another two steps forward, and suddenly saw a lot of people outside the usually deserted Zhuangfu who had come to see him. Somehow they got some news, and they all pointed to the plaque above his head, whispering something.Just seeing him appearing at the door suddenly, someone exclaimed.

The expressions are very strange.

General Song hurriedly ordered someone to close the gate of the Proton Mansion, put his sheathed knife across in front of Fu Nanyin, and said in a deep voice:

"Master, please go back."

It seemed that after hearing the content of the few words between him and Ke Shunzhe, even the tone became much colder.

……

Li Pei came out of the Proton Mansion in a carriage sent by the Daming Palace, and the saint almost used the imperial chariot to pick him up. The driver was Zuo Shi, the majestic Jinwu Guard, who was driving extremely fast. .

The market is not open at this hour, but the crowd is a bit strangely lively.

Li Pei didn't open the window, and didn't even bother to listen to what the people outside were talking about. He just leaned on the cushion of the carriage seat, closed his eyes and gently turned the ring on his thumb, lowering his head and thinking.

The last time he planted a spoil on the Proton Mansion, although the saint concealed his whereabouts, but with Zhao Shuncai’s encounter, the rumors would definitely spread to the Ke Mansion, and Li Pei acted against the officials when he was in Yushitai The understanding of impeachment style...

He wasn't worried that Ke Shunzhe would know, and even wanted to see what tricks this person could pull off.

It's just that he didn't expect that he would dare to come to the Proton's Mansion to deliver the decree so openly that he dragged it until today, obviously he wanted to use this to make the incident known to everyone in the government and the public.

The first time he visited the Proton Mansion at night, Ke Shunzhe was silent; the second time he climbed over the wall and entered the Proton Mansion, Ke Shunzhe did not express his position; yesterday he summoned the medical workers from the Imperial Medical Office to the Proton Mansion, Ke Shunzhe came today to announce the decree is obviously calculated .If Li Pei said "accidentally" again at this time, no one would understand it, and it would be impossible to wash it away.

Li Pei sneered.

For such a long time, he could bear it.

"Your Highness, here we are."

Outside the carriage came the voice of Jin Wuwei Chief Shi, followed by the sound of very light footsteps, presumably it was the servant of the Saint's Palace, who quickly opened the carriage door for him.

Li Pei responded casually, opened his eyes, and met a pair of smiling pupils.

The man stood outside the carriage and waited for a while, seeing that the people inside didn't seem to respond, and was about to climb into the carriage, when Li Pei finally spoke, a voice that he hadn't seen for a long time.

"little six."

Li Jiao responded with a smile, "Brother Pei, you are finally back."

I don't know whether it is Li Pei who came late today, or whether he left without saying goodbye after the great change in the palace five years ago.In short, this "finally" made Li Jiao's voice tinged with joy.

At that time, the sixth prince was still young, so he didn't know that the prince who always took care of him

As soon as brother left Daming Palace, he never came back.

Goodbye is today.

Li Jiao reached into the carriage and reached out to Li Pei, "Pull you out."

The people inside were a little puzzled, they didn't use that hand, they got up and got off the carriage.Seeing that the people beside him were still maintaining their original movements, they looked awkward.

"Let's go," Li Pei stretched out his hand, trying to rub Li Jiao's head according to his memory, but he saw that he had a jade crown on his head and his hair was tied up. He was no longer the boy in charge.With a pause, his hand landed on the latter's shoulder, and he patted lightly.

"The saint and Concubine Zhang are both in the palace?"

Feeling the force on his shoulders, Li Jiao didn't pay attention to what he said,

"Father and mother have been waiting for a while."

Today it was said that it was a family banquet for Linzi King Li Jiao returning to the palace, but in fact there were only four people.The other vassals are far away in the fief, and the other concubines in the palace are naturally not eligible to attend the banquet.

Including Li Pei's mother, the abolished Xu family.

Li Pei's face turned slightly cold.

The two people in the Lizheng Hall were Li Jiao's father and mother, and this banquet was held for Li Jiao. No matter how he looked at it, he looked like an outsider who shouldn't be there.

Li Jiao next to him noticed the Prince's expression sensitively, and his heart sank.

"I didn't mean that, brother Pei...don't get me wrong."

Li Pei put his hands back into his wide sleeves, looked at this little brother who liked to stick behind him since he was a child, and sighed helplessly: "I didn't think about anything, and I didn't misunderstand."

At that time, Li Jiao didn't know that the Xu family was in decline, let alone that the central palace was dethroned, so perhaps the ignorant and naive could still keep some family affection in their hearts.

The three-character golden plaque hangs high in the Lizheng Hall, making others feel oppressed when they see it.

Li Pei just glanced lightly, "I heard that there was a severe drought in Linzi, did you come to Beijing for this?"

Li Jiao nodded, with a sad look on his face: "There has been no snow or rain for half a year, and the fields have died of drought. There was no harvest three months ago, and now there are starvation everywhere."

The prince is very particular about granting land to the king. Li Jiao is the youngest son of a sage, and he is deeply favored. Naturally, he gets the most affluent place outside the capital.Linzi has a large area of ​​Toyota, and there are many tenants, so it is a place of wealth and wealth without worrying about food, clothing and money.

But natural disasters are really unpredictable.

Li Jiao sighed softly, "I am now a vassal king, and I cannot live in Chang'an for a long time. This time, I just asked my father to release three months of imperial food to help the refugees in Linzi..."

Before he finished speaking, the two of them had already walked into the hall.

Today is such a happy day for a family banquet, Li Jiao immediately stopped talking, put on a simple smile on his face, bowed to the first two people, and was pulled in by Concubine Zhang affectionately. seat.

Li Pei just quietly looked at the happy and happy appearance of the other family of three, and even the always serious saint had a rare smile on his face.

"Saint, concubine."

He raised his hand and bowed, his blunt voice caused the originally extremely harmonious voices in the hall to stop suddenly.

Concubine Zhang Guifei came to her senses first, and nodded towards the prince, her original smile also subsided a lot.

"Here we come," the sage raised his eyes, but his voice was still deep. "A family banquet is always urged to invite you four times. Your Highness the Crown Prince is so arrogant."

Li Pei stood up, walked to the table and sat down, listening to the sage's sarcasm, but did not speak.

Just because he didn't show up, there were only a few plates of dried fruit refreshments on the table, no wine and no food, very dull.At this time, the servants in the palace finally took the jug and put four gold goblets on it. Seeing the oppressive atmosphere on the table, they stepped back cautiously.

Concubine Zhang Guifei heard about the quarrel between the crown prince and the sage in the palace, since returning to the palace half a year ago, there were often quarrels with the sage every time, so she knew that Li Pei would not give in.

Seeing the sage's uneasy expression, she was about to say a few soft words to ease the atmosphere, but unexpectedly, she was preempted by the equally calm-eyed prince.

"If you tell the saint to wait for a long time, the minister will punish you with a cup."

Li Pei picked up the gold bottle filled with wine on the table, and drank it down in one gulp.

Everyone at the table was a little surprised except Li Jiao.

And the sage couldn't tell what it was like in his heart at this time.

, did not speak, but also took a sip of wine.

Before that incident, Li Pei's character was very gentle and submissive, and the saint didn't realize it; it wasn't until five years ago that Li Pei contradicted him for the first time in this hall because of the Xu family's affair with the abolished queen, and then he saw It's clear that he, the crown prince, is actually extremely stubborn, and he never bows his head to others easily.For so many years, the sage once worried that if Li Pei remained like this, whether such a character would be worthy of a great responsibility.

But this glass of wine at this time was the first time Li Pei lowered his head after returning to the palace, and said the word "self-punishment".

Although it was an innocuous matter, it made the saint feel a little happy in his heart.

"My son wanted to enter the palace with Brother Pei today," Li Jiao said suddenly, looking at the empty bottle on the table.

"It's a pity that brother Pei is not in the East Palace. It must be delayed by something."

Li Jiao also raised his wine glass, said something to make the sage and the noble concubine happy, and drank half a glass of wine, "Why must the father be angry with Brother Pei for such a trivial matter?"

Li Pei stopped pouring wine, and after a while, the corner of his mouth curved into a sarcastic arc.

Concubine Zhang Gui was still on the sidelines, "A Pei is the heir apparent after all, and he manages a lot of things every day; he is not idle like A Jiao, who can enter the palace with just a pass..."

Li Pei suddenly felt some noise in his ears.He remembered that on the day when his mother's queen moved into Yongxiang, someone had spread rumors that Concubine Zhang Guifei was about to be crowned queen, and that his heir apparent would be shaken because of the decline of the Xu family. His Highness the Sixth Highness, who was quite favored.

Li Jiao's fiefdom is Linzi, which was also the capital of a king, hiding the thousand-year-old crape myrtle dragon spirit.

But now, the king of Linzi has returned to Beijing.

When the saint heard that Li Pei was not in the East Palace, he looked over with a pair of old but sharp eyes.

If they were not in the East Palace, where Li Pei went was a matter of mutual understanding between the two of them.There was some disappointment in the saint's eyes, and there was a bit of warning in it.

But Li Pei curled his lips indifferently at this time, continued to refill the wine bottle, and took a sip slowly.

"Ke Shilang issued the edict of the saint's call to the Proton Mansion. It was far away, so it was too late."

In Li Pei's peripheral vision, when Li Jiao heard the word "Ke Shilang", the piece of plum blossom pastry that Li Jiao just picked up was broken due to the force of his hand, and the residue fell on the table.

"You said...he went to the Proton Mansion?"

The saint repeated this sentence again, with a bit of surprise and annoyance in his tone.

Ke Shunzhe used to be very good at guessing the holy will, but this time - when the sage repeatedly showed his attitude towards the prince, Ke Shunzhe still revealed the whereabouts of the prince with great fanfare, and he really didn't know how to flatter him.

"Proton Mansion?" Li Jiao's voice came in at the right time, and he asked curiously, "What kind of place is that?"

……

This family banquet was originally organized by Concubine Zhang Gui, and it was intended to welcome the king of Linzi. Unfortunately, there was an extra Li Pei's family at the table who were bothered by trivial matters. Usually stay overnight in the imperial concubine's palace last night.

And Li Jiao's question was quickly solved at the court meeting on the second day.

The news of yesterday's imperial decree spread in Chang'an——

Prince Li Pei finally got tired of that orchid in the mansion, and hadn't returned to the East Palace for many days.The sage searched for no one, and finally sent an imperial decree from the Ministry of Rites to finally find the prince who had been "missing" for a few days at the Proton Mansion where the Mobei Imperial Master lived.At that time when the Xuanzhi officer arrived, the prince was still in disheveled clothes, sleeping on the couch with the national teacher in his arms, and woke up after calling several times.

Many people in Chang'an know that there is a dude named Pei Tianren, who is famous for his broken sleeves. A lot of romance.But they never imagined that the prince would get entangled with that male national teacher and do such absurd things, let alone that Li Pei was that dandy Pei Tianren.

Yu Shitai eloquently read out the rumors he heard yesterday in the court hall, and at the end he did not forget to add a few words "unseemly" and "extremely absurd"...

Li Jiao stood on the Golden Palace for the first time, and saw that it was like this

In a scene, he looked at Li Pei worriedly, but saw a sarcasm smile on his lips, listening to the clamor of the censor calmly.

"The crown prince actually has an affair with the Imperial Teacher of Mobei, so it seems that the defeat in the battle of Mobei is not accidental."

A minister suddenly stood up and said.

"Abandoning the interests of the Central Plains because of his own selfish desires, how can such a person be worthy of being the prince of a country!"

As soon as these words came out, the civil and military officials in the Golden Palace really became agitated, and they all turned their heads and whispered. Naturally, some people supported this, while others always insisted on the orthodoxy of the Eastern Palace.

"The crown prince has become more and more lewd in the past few months, and now he has such a joke with a man, it is really a shame for the royal family!"

It's just that since Du Xiang resigned and returned to his hometown, there are fewer and fewer people in the court who can speak for the prince.

Now it looks like Ke Shunzhe and the others are speaking with one word.

"Tell me," Li Pei kept his head down, looking at the emerald jade ring in his hand, he couldn't tell the emotion on his face or in his tone, "When will they say 'changing the king of Linzi as the crown prince'?" This sentence?"

Li Jiao stood very close to him, Li Pei's volume was controlled just right, only Li Jiao could hear it.

The latter was shocked and looked over in disbelief.

"Brother Pei, what are you talking about? I'm just a feudal lord, and I will return to Linzi soon, so how can I pose a threat to your reserve?"

Will you return to Linzi soon?

Li Pei smiled.

"Then I'm afraid you won't be able to leave."

I'm afraid I don't want to leave...

"Please ask the sage to abolish the crown prince," Ke Shunzhe stood up at the right time when the atmosphere of courtship was almost over, and suggested loudly, "Change the sage to be the crown prince."

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